Call for papers Vol. 21 / N° 1

InMediaciones de la Comunicación

Volume 21 / N° 1 (January-June 2026)

We are pleased to inform that the call for papers is now open for Volume 21 / No. 1 (January- June 2026) of InMediaciones de la Comunicación, academic journal published since 1998 by Universidad ORT Uruguay. The journal focuses on the publication of original articles and the dissemination of interviews, essays, and research results in the field of communication and related disciplines, with a special focus on the processes of social mediatization and the study of contemporary media phenomena. The content is aimed at researchers, professors, undergraduate and graduate students, and individuals interested in all areas of communication. Before publication, manuscripts are initially reviewed by the Associate Editors, the Academic Committee, and the Guest Editors of each issue, and are then evaluated using a double-blind review system with the intervention of external referees. The journal maintains an open access policy, accepting submissions in Spanish, English, and Portuguese, and authors pay no fees for the processing or publishing of papers. InMediaciones de la Comunicación is published in both print and digital formats with the aim of promoting the open publication of articles that are the result of the work carried out by researchers and fostering the approach of a wide variety of topics and issues that traverse the field of communication. Over the years, it has received contributions from renowned researchers and academics, who offer their perspectives on the debates sparked by the ongoing renewal of communication phenomena in Latin America and around the world.

- Accepting applications for the THEMATIC ARTICLES SECTION

- Accepting applications for evaluation in the FREE ARTICLES SECTION

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THEMATIC ARTICLES SECTION

Topic of Volume 21 / No. 1 (January-June 2026)

BEYOND POSTMODERNITY

The Processes of Contemporary Mediatization

Fundamentals of the Call

The progressive restriction of the objects of study in the field of mediatization –both in the North and the South– allows us to consider that increasing attention must be paid to the processes that shape contemporary societies, beyond postmodernity. The presence of this thesis in foundational and current works of mediatization analysis (Verón, 1984, 1986, 1997 and 2014; Fausto Neto (2010); Braga (2011); Hjarvard (2014); Krotz (2017); Escudero Chauvel and Olivera (2022); Bolin (2023); Carlón (2024); Ferreira, Bolin, Silveira and Löfgren (2024); to cite a few references from multiple authors) is increasingly evident and therefore deserves a detailed investigation of the processes that, at different levels –from the micro to the macro social, from the circulation of meaning to deep mediatization, from traditional devices and actors to new ones (bots, cyber troops, algorithms, generative technologies)– shape contemporary societies.

Within this framework, it is logical to think that a new exploration, aiming to obtain different results, should focus on unique features of our contemporary world. To the extent that mediatization affects, above all, time and space, we can ask, on the one hand, what present, past, and future mean within the framework of current mediatization processes; and, on the other hand, investigate how new processualities affect classic anthropological dimensions –that is, to what extent nature/technology/society enter into a new relationship and observe the complex dimension of this link.

These developments are likely to challenge Nordic and Latin American studies in ways that are common, but also specific. They may challenge Nordic studies because the meta-process of mediatization (Krotz, 2017) and figurative processualities (Hepp, 2013) are reconfigured –moment by moment– in a particular way. They may challenge Latin American studies, which rely more on semiotics and theories of meaning –an approach also proposed by Nordic authors such as Göran Bolin (2023)– because new questions arise about the edges and limits of what’s human in complex diachronic developments in which historical time is a fundamental protagonist. In any case, a new complexity defies the theoretical and conceptual frameworks with which we have allowed ourselves to think and analyze contemporary mediatization processes.

In this context, how do we move forward? One possible way to do so is perhaps by sharing some questions. Which ones? Below are some we can hardly avoid: What are the processes that characterize contemporary societies, in which different human actors (individuals, collectives, media, institutions) and non-human actors (automated devices, algorithms, different types of AI, bots, etc.) interact at all levels? Can we figure out their processes and circuits of interaction? Can we map them? How are their relationships with each other transformed through these contacts? What new characteristics is the circulation of meaning taking on in today’s mediatization? What types of actors and relationships between actors characterize us, beyond postmodernity? How are analyses that address the circulation of meaning linked to those of deep mediatization?

These questions and challenges are posed in this new InMediaciones de la Comunicación’s call for papers. An invitation to continue thinking about contemporaneity.

Topics for the Submission of Papers

• The processes of mediatization: nature, technology, society, and the circulation of meaning in the contemporary era.
• Processes and crises of temporality (past, present, and future): What meanings does the present assume today? How do we tell our pasts? How do we think about our futures? What kind of future and past does artificial intelligence (AI) “imagine”?
• Beyond Postmodernity: mediatization, circulation of meaning, actors, and social fields (What processes are triggered by the new resources used for the production of texts, images, music, video, or photographs in diverse areas, such as law, teaching, journalism, art, sports, science, and religion?).
• The relationship between mediatization and the “crisis” of intelligence –whether natural, human, or artificial– and the production of meaning in diverse circuits by multiple actors.
• Mediatization, politics, identity, and social movements: What types of political actions do the articulations and tensions between deep mediatization and the circulation of meaning generate, and what impact do they have on the formation of contemporary identities?

Guest Editors

Mario Carlón. PhD in Social Sciences, Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina). BA in Art History, Universidad Nacional de La Plata (Argentina). Researcher at the Gino Germani Institute, Faculty of Social Sciences, Universidad de Buenos Aires. Coordinator of the International Seminar “Research on the Contemporary in/from Latin America,” Universidad de Buenos Aires. Head Professor of the subject “Semiotics of Networks,” BA in Communication Sciences, Universidad de Buenos Aires. He is a member of the International Research Network on Mediatizations. He was president of the Argentine Association of Film and Audiovisual Studies (2013-2015) and a member of the Digital Citizenship Observatory. Brazil/Mexico/Argentina (2020-2024). He has been researching, writing and publishing on mediatization in Latin America for over twenty years (Eliseo Verón wrote the “Prologue” to his book Sobre lo televisivo: dispositivos, discursos y sujetos (2004) and the “Prologue” to Las políticas de los internautas. Nuevas formas de participación, compiled alongside Antônio Fausto Neto (2011). Some of his published books are Lo contemporáneo: indagaciones en/desde América Latina sobre el cambio de época (2023), Circulación del sentido y construcción de colectivos en una sociedad hipermediatizada (2020), Después del fin. Una perspectiva no antropocéntrica sobre la post-tv, el post-cine y YouTube (2016); with Yvana Fechine, O fim da televisão (2021 [2014]); in collaboration with Carlos A. Scolari, El fin de los medios masivos. El debate continúa (2009) and Colabor-arte. Medios y arte en la era de la producción colaborativa (2012).

Jairo Ferreira. Postdoctoral degree in Communication, Universidad Nacional de Rosario (Argentina). PhD in Computer Science and Education, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), with internships at  Archivos Jean Piaget and the Educational Technologies Unit of the Faculty of Psychology and Education of the University of Geneva (Switzerland). Master’s degree in Sociology, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Professor of the Postgraduate Program in Communication Sciences, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (Brazil). Visiting Professor at the Universidade de São Paulo - PPGCOM (2024/2025) and Visiting Professor at the University of Grenoble Alpes, UNESCO-Gresec Chair (2024). Founder and coordinator of the Midiaticom Research Group (created in 2003 - Directory of Research Groups of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (Brazil): dgp.cnpq.br/dgp/espelhogrupo/4543214125867556). In 2001, he received the CAPES-PAPED (Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel - Distance Education Research Support Program) award. He currently coordinates the following collective projects: the International Research Seminar on Mediatization and Social Processes, North-South Dialogues, Sixth Edition (2024), which brings together around 200 researchers annually; the International Research Network on Mediatization and Social Processes —based within the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development— which brings together 30 researchers and 13 research institutions from Brazil, Argentina, and Europe. He coordinated the creation and is the editor of Questões Transversais - Revista de Epistemologías da Comunicação. He has edited 19 books, 34 book chapters, and 57 articles published in academic journals, as well as 43 articles published in the proceedings of academic events. His work focuses primarily on the epistemologies of mediatization and communication, mediated social media, mediatization and racism, and issues related to artificial intelligence, algorithms, and platforms.

Guillermo E. Olivera. Postdoc in Latin American Studies, University of London (Great Britain). PhD in Critical Theory, University of Nottingham (Great Britain). Magister’s degree in Socio-Semiotics, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina). BA in Social Communication, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. BA in Modern Languages, Open University (Great Britain). Member of the Centre for Language and Communication at the University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands). Member of the editorial team of the academic journal deSignis. He has been a professor and researcher at several British universities and Adjunct Professor of Semiotics at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. He was a professor at the University of Stirling (Scotland), where he was Director of the Hispanic and Latin American Studies Program and Director of the Postgraduate Program in Film Studies. He is the author of the book Laboratorios de la mediatización (2011) and co-editor —in collaboration with Fabricio Forastelli— of Queer Studies. Semiótica y política de la sexualidad (2013). In collaboration with Andreas Hepp, he co-edited the volume “Mediatizations” for the journal deSignis. His publications include articles and book chapters on Argentine cinema, queer cinema, and LGBTIQ+ policies in specialized journals around the world.

Collaboration

Isabel Löfgren. PhD in Media and Communication, European Graduate School (Switzerland). Master's degree in Visual Languages, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). BA in Visual Arts, Smith College (United States). Associate Professor of Media and Communication, Södertörn University (Sweden). Research coordinator of the scientific exchange project "Mediatization: Empirical, Epistemological, and Methodological Inferences in Communication Research in Brazil and Sweden" (2020-2024), between Södertörn University, the Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (Brazil), and the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (Brazil). Culture and Communication Coordinator at the research platform "EcoJust - Ecologically Just and Socially Sustainable Transformations," Södertörn University. She has co-edited publications of the “Coordenação de aperfeiçoamento de pessoal de superior level - Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (CAPES-STINT)” network, such as the book The Planalto Riots: Making and Unmaking a Failed Coup in Brazzaville (2024), together with Lou Caffagni, Gizele Martins and Paola Sartoretto. She is the author of articles on visual culture and media activism published in international scientific journals.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: September 15, 2025

PUBLICATION DATE: January 1, 2026 (continuous publication)

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InMediaciones de la Comunicación

Universidad ORT Uruguay

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